Silence Quotes

Some things we must pass over in silence.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

But the silence spoke volumes.

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

Silence can be the worst ridicule.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence. To break the endless song.

All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence.

I tried making an album six years ago. It was just horrific. Trust me, it's smashed into smithereens. I paid big money to silence that one.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.

The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Keep quiet. Pretend nothing had happened, that nothing was wrong. And look how well that was turning out.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.

The silence was an intense roar.

How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV unless you're very drunk.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

There are silences harder to take back than words.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?

As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

You might be a redneck if you think Silence of the Lambs is what happens when Larry walks out to the barn.